Dr Helen Boyle | |
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Born | Alice Helen Anne Boyle 1869 |
Died | 1957 (aged 87–88) Pyecombe, West Sussex, England |
Alma mater | London School of Medicine for Women |
Occupation(s) | psychiatrist general practitioner |
Known for | First woman president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists |
Honours | Order of St. Sava Queen Elisabeth Medal |
Alice Helen Anne Boyle (1869 – November 1957)[1] was an Irish-British physician and psychiatrist.[2] She was Brighton's first female general practitioner, and the first female president of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association (now the Royal College of Psychiatrists). Boyle had a passion for helping women with mental illness in poverty and used this to begin an era of proper treatment for mental disorders.